Button



Oct. 3, 1939. RICHMONDET AL BUTTON Original Filed May 7, 1938 INVENTORS. L 01/115 ff/bbmond fia w'a fc/rer? BYWAV A ORNEY.

Patented Oct. 3, 1939 I 2,175,2t

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BUTTON Louis Richmond and Dzgrid Eckert, New York, N.

Original application May 7, 1938, Serial No.

206,568. Divided and this application January 24, 1939, Serial No. 252,538

1 Claim. (CI. 24-90) This invention is divided out from our co-pendton disc which often break off, such breakage ing application, filed May 'I, 1938, bearing Serial causing, besides the loss of the button, extra labor #206,568, now Patent No. 2,150,563, granted in securing a new button in place.

March 14, 1939, and relates to buttons generally Other buttons commonly used are provided with 5 and more particularly to buttons adapted for use bulging perforated shanks stamped out of sheet 5 in connection with fur coats or coats made of metal which cause the buttons to stand away heavy fabrics, and has for one of its objects the from the coat material and give the garment a provision of a shankless button, which, instead rather clumsy appearance. Such buttons are exof being sewn to the garment is tied thereto by pensive to manufacture and often come apart at means of a tape or the like carried by the button. the juncture of the shank and upper body por- 19 Another object of the invention is the provision tion thereof. It is to obviate these undesirable of a button of the nature referred to, in which features that we have perfected the button of our the securing tape is not visible from the front or present invention. outside of the button. Referring now to the drawing in detail, 5 indi- A further object of the invention is the provicates a solid disc button which may be made of 15 sion of such a button comprising a solid disc any desirable material and provided with a fiat having a flat bottom surface at an angle to which even bottom surface 6 at an angle to which are are drilled a pair ofspaced apart holes, the said drilled, or otherwise formed, a pair of spaced holes meeting at the center of the disc, intermeapart holes or openings 1 which meet at a central 20 diate its top and bottom surface, to provide means point 8 intermediate the top and bottom surfaces 20 for passing a securing tape therethrough and to of the disc. Due to the angularity of the holes further provide a pair of elliptical entrance openwith the bottom surface of the button, a pair of ings into either of which the tape may be easily spaced apart elliptical entrance or mouth openinserted for threading or drawing same through ings 9 are formed to provide easy and ready acthe button. cess for the securing tape II] when threaded 2 Another object is to produce a device of the through the openings 1. character described in which the maximum sim- The button may be kept in stock with the tape plicity of construction and operation is secured. Ill knotted or tied about the central portion H Other objects and advantages will appear as until needed for use, at which time the free ends the nature of the improvements is better underof the tape are passed through the coat mate- 30 stood, the invention consisting substantially in rial I2 and tied as at l3 for securing the button the novel arrangement and co-relation of parts to the coat. The original knot about the central herein fully described and illustrated in the acportion ll (not shown), may or may not be companying drawing, wherein similar reference opened when the button is secured to the coat characters are used to describe corresponding material. In Fig. l of the drawing, the button 35 parts throughout the several views, and then flis shown against the coat material with the orignally pointed out and specifically defined and ininal knot having been opened and the tape knotdicated in the appended claim. ted at l3 after it has been passed through the The disclosure made the basis of exemplifying coat material I2. the present inventive concept suggests a practical From the foregoing, it will be seen that we 40 embodiment thereof, but the invention is not to have provided a one-piece inexpensive shankless be restricted to the exact details of this disclosure, button which is made of a single solid disc, the and the latter, therefore, is to be understood from said disc having means through which a securan illustrative, rather than a restrictive standing tape may be readily passed, the said tape not point. being visible from the exterior of the button. 45 In the accompanying drawing- It will also be seen that due to the construc- Figure 1 is a sectional view of our improved tion of the button, there are no parts to become button showing same secured to the coat fabric; loose or broken, and the button may be drawn and as close as desired to the material to which it Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the button. is secured due to its even flat bottom surface. 50

Some buttons now commonly used in connec- Having described our invention, what we claim tion with heavy fabrics and fur coats are of the as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: type which include a shank by which means they A one-piece solid button comprising a solid are secured to the coat. The aforementioned body having a substantially flat bottom face, said shanks comprise a wire loop imbedded in the butbody being formed with a passage for receiving 55 a securing strand and consisting of straight end sections leading forwardly from the bottom face thereof in spaced relation to each other, said end portions having their front ends intersecting in spaced relation to the front face of the body and communicating with each other to form a con tinuous angular passage, the outer ends of the said end sections opening through the bottom face of the body to form elliptical mouths to facilitate passage of a securing strand through the passage.

LOUIS RICHlVIOND. DAVID ECKEIRT. 

